1. James Dyson, the billionaire vacuum cleaner inventor, has the potential to be a real-life version of Alvar Hanso from Lost. I'll bet that Dyson Ball is financing some sort of time travel project.

2. Every Law & Order script must include a moment where the police -- when trying to find a killer -- interview someone who uses the phrase, "You know, now that you mention it, there was this one guy..."

3. I really liked the first episode of this season of Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days, which featured the filmmaker spending a month working in a coal mine. It was funny, informative, poignant and at one point -- kind of suspenseful, when Spurlock and the miners had to evacuate when the ventilation system shut down. We of course know he'll make it out -- a semi-famous filmmaker dying in a mine disaster would have made the news -- but seeing an actual dangerous situation play out like that got my attention a lot more than watching someone guess how much money is in a briefcase.

4. There's a nifty blog I've just found called Pajiba. Among other things, the writers there have begun to catalogue their picks for the Best 15 TV Seasons of the Last 20 Years. Included on the list: Firefly's sole season (yay!), the fourth season of The Simpsons, and the second seasons of Buffy, The Wire, and ArrestedDevelopment.

5. If you have time, listen to this really interesting interview with The Office's Jenna Fischer from NPR's FreshAir. The interview is timed with a movie she has coming out, but most of the show is spent on The Office. The story of how she was cast is rather sweet.